Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
